Scope and Contents Interviewer: Leigh CutlerProject: University Of HoustonThe family of Dr. Emilio Sarabia, a retired physician at the time of the interview, was one of the earliest to arrive in Houston. His father was one who opened the first theater for Spanish language movies, the Azteca Theatre presently located across from Minute Maid Park. The other family members opened a variety of businesses that settled in the area on the northern side of Downtown Houston that was then known...

Scope and Contents Interviewer: Ernesto ValdézProject: University of HoustonReverend Lowell Case is one of thirteen siblings born in a historically agricultural area of southern Maryland. Lowell discusses his youth and the education he received in the Catholic schools he attended and how competitive scholarship placement tests became after integration. Lowell lists the big-time employers like Bethlehem Steel and his own experiences working thirty-three hours a week with the Atlantic and...

Scope and Contents Interviewer(s): John GoinsProject: University of HoustonThis interview with Deborah Bell, a longtime feminist and GLBT activist, highlights these two movements in Texas as part of a broader Civil Rights movement. She recounts the context in which she gradually became more and more involved with the National Organization for Women (NOW) in the 1970s, eventually becoming the President of the state chapter. Bell then recalls her “coming out” in the 1980s. Her prior...

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Interviewer(s): John Goins

Project: University of Houston

Scope and Contents Interviewer(s): John GoinsProject: University of HoustonThis interview with Henry McClurg, now Editor-in-Chief of the Montrose Star, focuses on the gay press, the gay community of Houston and New Orleans, and efforts towards activism and advocacy for gay rights. McClurg, who has been involved in media for more than forty years, is uniquely positioned to speak on the subject. After several years of experience, he decided to start his own newspaper, The Contact, in...

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Interviewer(s): John Goins

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Scope and Contents Interviewer: Hannah DeRousselleProject: University Of HoustonJack Valinski, one of the three founders of Pride Houston along with Carol Clark and Brian Keever, did not live in Houston while the Houston Pride Parade was getting starting in the late 1970s. Mr. Valinski moved to Houston in 1981, and beginning in 1982, he became increasing involved in Houston‟s LGBT community, which eventually led to his co-founding Pride Houston. Mr. Valinski spent twenty-five years...

Scope and Contents Interviewer: John GoinsProject: University Of HoustonBorn in 1937 and moving to Houston in 1953, Kay Van Cleave offers a glimpse into early gay life there and the beginnings of its organization. As a member of the group that founded the Diana’s in the 1950s, she was present at the earliest of the events. In her early years, she associated with an elite, moneyed, group that did not involve itself politically. Her interview reveals the atmosphere in the fifties and...

Scope and Contents Interviewer: Mark CallierProject: University Of HoustonFormer NFL player and Hall of Famer, Kenneth Houston discusses many topics from his feelings when he was drafted to an NFL team near his hometown to watching football games after retirement. The interview focuses on his views about the history of professional football in the city of Houston and the Houston Oilers team. Mr. Houston has a deep knowledge on the workings of football as a business and an entertainment...

Scope and Contents Interviewer(s): Natalie GarzaProject: University of HoustonDr. Joe Pratt is the NEH Cullen Professor of History and Business at the University of Houston. In this interview Dr. Pratt talks about diversity amongst the faculty and graduate students at the University of Houston. As a faculty member of the History department, he provides examples of what the History department has done to improve diversity of both its faculty and its training of African American and...

Scope and Contents Interviewer: James WangProject: University Of HoustonWilliam “Bill” Taylor was a member of the 1955 Houston ROTC Quartermasters Regiment and a cadet 1st lieutenant in command of the Cullen Rifles, which were named after long-time UH benefactor Hugh Roy Cullen. Taylor attended the University of Houston from January 1952, graduated with a bachelor’s degree in business administration, and also received his commission in the US Army as a second lieutenant in June 1956. He...

Scope and Contents Interviewer: Jackson FoxProject: University Of HoustonJackson Fox is a student leader of the Three Continents Program at the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture at University of Houston. As a student of Peter Zweig at the time of the interview, he asks his professor to describe the focus and goals of his career as an architect, researcher, and educator in Houston. This interview offers a unique perspective of Houston’s relationship with the natural environment. As...

Scope and Contents Interviewer: Debbie HarwellProject: University Of HoustonMajor Keli Chevalier, the founder of the nonprofit Trauma to Triumph, discusses how she came to join the military to pay for her education and describes, her almost twenty-year career that included a tour in Kosovo and two in Iraq. She began her military career demonstrating biomedical equipment and later moved into logistics, responsible for getting U.S. Army service men and women and supplies in and out of the...

Scope and Contents Interviewer: Lindsay ScovilProject: University Of HoustonShea Hill discusses the current and future goals and happenings of the Heights Woman’s Club in Houston, Texas. A brief amount of history of the club is discussed including the donation of the clubhouse land by Mrs. Cooley, the club flower, and the club motto, but the interview mostly consists of details surrounding current membership policies and current events such as the Witches’ Luncheon, the Hortense Ward...

Scope and Contents Interviewer: Debbie HarwellProject: University of HoustonBeverly Rudy discusses her early years growing up in Oklahoma and Arkansas. She left high school at the end of her junior year to attend the University of Texas. She married Ellis Rudy and moved to Houston where she completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Houston. Her husband contracted hepatitis causing Beverly to feel she needed a career and decided on law school. She discusses her experiences...